| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立屏東科技大學 === 休閒運動保健系所 === 97 === The purpose of this study is to explore the influence of hikers’ early-life outdoor experiences on the environmental attitudes. The method of survey was used. The questionnaires were distributed to the representative sample of 500 hikers over 18 year-old at Daken Trail in Taichung. Taking out of uncompleted and ineffective questionnaires, the final collection of questionnaires are 444 samples. This survey data was processed by SPSS12.0 software. The statistical methods including: descriptive statistics, canonical correlation, and multi-regression analysis.
The question items of mountain hikers’ early-life outdoor experience including: “individual outdoor experience”, “outdoor activity organization and education”, and “negative environmental incidents.” For environmental attitudes NEP (New Environmental Paradigm Scale) was used as the survey questions and divided into three main subscales: “balance of nature”, “limitation of growth” and “human can overpower natural forces”.
According to the results, this research found that early-life outdoor experiences is a good predictor to the whole environmental attitudes, especially “negative environmental incidents” which is the most effective predictive index, secondly will be the “individual outdoor experience”. And “outdoor activity organization and education” shows significantly less than the standard of predictive index. Through the analysis of canonical correlation, like most of the result of past studies, this research finds the relevance influence of “early-life outdoor experiences” to environmental attitudes. From the survey this research finds that the subject hikers have less “individual outdoor experience” and “outdoor activity organization and education”, though, they have different opinion of the idea “human can overpower natural forces”. Most of the hikers didn’t have much experience of outdoor activity and environmental education but they think human can not conquer nature, and also they can understand that human should respect the nature. Also, the finding shows that the survey subjects have correct idea about environmental attitudes. Furthermore, recommendations for further research, management and education were provided.
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